Nalini Ranjan Sarkar

Nalini Ranjan Sarker (11 February 1882–25 January 1953) was an Indian Industrialist and Statesman, who greatly involved in the economic regeneration of West Bengal.

The Sarker Committee Report was instrumental in the subsequent establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by the Government of India.

He enlisted himself as a Congress volunteer, lived in a dingy mess room huddled together with his friends.

[3] Sarker had close contacts with Surendranath Banerjee, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Chittaranjan Das, all of whom developed his ideas of nationalism and economic freedom.

In the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1928, he acted as the Secretary of the Exhibition organised for the occasion.

[citation needed] He was one of the key figures of the Indian National Congress party in Bengal.

Post the independence of India, Sarkar chaired a 3-man expert committee to draft the financial sections of the Indian constitution.

[7] It was the Nalini Ranjan Sarkar committee that recommended the set up of IIT's, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)[8] He died on 25 January 1953 of a heart attack at his home in Kolkata (then Calcutta), at the age of 70[9]